68 CUPRESSUS ; OR 



separating when ripe. Seeds, numerous under each scale, 

 yellowish brown, and irregularly angular, and covered with a 

 thin membranaceous skin. 



An evergreen tree, growing in its native country 50 or 60 

 feet high, with all its branches growing in an upward direction, 

 closely pressed to the stem, like those of the Lombardy Poplar. 



The Upright or Common Cypress is a native of Greece, Asia 

 Minor, the south of Europe, and Persia, and cultivated in all 

 the countries along the Mediterranean, and throughout the 

 whole of Italy, from the foot of the Alps to Calabria, as well as 

 in Sicily and Turkey. There are the following varieties : — 



CupRESSUS SEMrERViRENS HORizoNTALis, Miller, the Hori- 

 zontal Cypress. 

 Syn. C. expansa, Audibert. 



„ C. Orientalis, liort. 

 ^ „ C. mas, CcBsalpin. 

 ,, C. horizontalis, Du Hamel. 

 „ C. fastigiata horizontalis, IJ.C. 



This differs in no way from the upright kind, except in its 

 manner of growth, — it having its branches disposed in a hori- 

 zuutal direction, and very spreading, and only grows to about 

 half the height of the upright kind. 



It is found indigenous in Candia, Bithynia, and Persia, but 

 mixed with the upright kind ; and some writers still consider 

 it a distinct species, but the question as to whether the upright 

 and spreading Cypresses are the same, or two distinct species, 

 is now well ascertained that both are the same species ; for seeds 

 sown from the horizontal variety will produce plants varying 

 in shape and appearance from the spreading to the most upright 

 form of this plant, while seedlings raised from the upright, only 

 produce plants with a tapering or conical-shaped head ; and 

 this may have led Cacsalpin, and other ancient writers, to con- 

 sider one the male, and the other the female Cypress. 



